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Plan to ‘take out’ Pak nukes
According to a Times of India (21 Oct.)
report from Washington, beyond the immediate objective of decimating Osama
Bin Laden and his al-Qaida and toppling the Taliban regime in Afghanistan,
the US has some long-term collateral targets in the region: Pakistan's
nukes and spooks.
While the bombing campaign against the Taliban is making headlines, the
Bush administration is quietly moving behind the scenes to try and ensure
it has some kind of handle on Pakistan's nuclear assets. Informed sources
say Pakistan has rejected Washington's offer --made over the last month
--of enhancing the safety and security measures of its nuclear force,
believing it will constitute an intrusive inspection of its weapons
program.
Proliferation experts within and outside the administration are
increasingly invoking the nightmare scenario of the nuclear weapons
falling into the hands of a fundamentalist jehadi regime that could
overthrow the Musharraf rule.
Some experts are now pushing for a back-up plan that includes deployment
of US forces to remove Pakistan's nuclear weapons should a jehadi regime
take over.
The Washington Post reported same day that India might take advantage of
the current chaos to knock out Pakistan nuclear installations. It is
believed that the tension on the borders and the general’s ‘lay off’
warning point in this direction. However, analysts believe that any such
folly on part of India will open the wounds of 1971 when Delhi helped
dismember Pakistan. ISI’s activities in Punjab and Jammu & Kashmir
are believed to be in revenge of that act. q |
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